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shonkinite

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Etymology

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From Shonkin +‎ -ite, after the type locality at Shonkin Sag in the Highwood Mountains of north-central Montana.

Noun

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shonkinite (countable and uncountable, plural shonkinites)

  1. (mineralogy) A kind of mafic foidal syenite.